Thank you, Keith! I love the contrasting colours of it. It makes the bowl look so modern,that the auctioneers classified it as 2nd half of the 20th century - together with a KralikMillefiori bowl. Maybe the reason they didn't sell in the auction and I got the two of themafterwards...

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I think there is a good possibility that this piece is actually by Welz. The color combination is unusual, something they like to do, and I have identified a large number of bowls and footed compote style pieces with bodies shaped in a similar manner. I have only identified a couple of pieces of glass I believe to be by them which has threading on them. This may be the third..... I am not 100% sure, but that is the direction I lean strongly...

Interestingly, it was actually a piece with a Welz label, in a similar style of body and lip as this piece that got me started on my whole Welz project..... They had all been systematically classified as Kralik, and one day I was sent a group of pictures by a collector who added the comment that there was a Kralik "face bowl" as some call them, with a label reading FWK on it... It was this family of forms that made me realize that Welz product was being attributed incorrectly, and I became curious as to how much of it was out there...... I actually looked at pieces pushed out with tongs as a starting place for my work..... and what I found there was very startling and interesting..... and it grew from there.....

I went through my image library for Kralik threaded and veined pieces and could not find a single example by them which contained two colors of threading on the same vessel.

Although not the same, I am attaching an image of a couple of pieces I believe to be Welz threaded pieces. The first one contains threading which appears to be the same color of blue, a color which I do not have on any Kralik examples.

Hi CraigMany thanks for your detailed answer - much appreciated! :hiclp:You can imagine Welz wouldn't be a bad answer for me either! I'll certainly send you some pictures asap. I've been busy a bit more than usual overthe last weeks, so be prepared for a few more interesting items... :hi:

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